Paul update - Day 32

Day 32 – Sunday 14 December

Another quiet Sunday. Mark spent most of the afternoon with us but had to leave early because he is off to Dublin for a couple of days. Whilst we were dropping him back at the flat, Amy popped in and brought Paul a chocolate Advent Calendar which I have put on the wall beside his bed. With everything that was going on at the end of November we forgot to get one for the boys (normally a tradition!) and by the time we got round to trying to get them everywhere had sold out, so she did well to find one. Paul has got 14 days of chocolate to catch up on.....I am sure he will manage.

We spent most of the day chatting or watching television / playing the X-Box. Kevin, the lad opposite, had shown Paul his yearbook earlier in the week so Paul asked us to bring his in and he spent quite a while going through it and reminiscing. He has a very good memory of everything and everyone that is in it, he wanted to show me some specific pictures and he knew exactly where to look so his long term memory seems fine, but he still struggles with short term.

He has more physio and occupational therapy tomorrow and hopefully we should have a meeting with the consultant over the next few days when we should get more information about how Paul is doing and what the long term prognosis is. He is still doing remarkably well, but there is still quite a long way to go.